If reality hurts your feelings that's your problem and no one obligated to pander to your delusions. "Gender identity" does not exist for the same reason Rachel Dolezal's "mental race" does not exist, even if the people with these delusions do exist.
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The anti-trans like Hermione really don’t get that if you’re a cis person, you also have a gender identity.
In every trans person, however, their gender identity doesn’t line up with their physical sex, so they think about it a lot more.
Rachel Dolezal passed is a black woman for a lot of years. She identifies more with black cultures than with white. She is to be pitied, not mocked, not praised; pitied.
But the very fact she could pass as a black woman when she is white should put racism and the entire concept of race under a microscope: a woman who is clearly white simply wore her a different way and put together family photos with other people who are black and at University she studied African American culture. It was, and I suspect it still is, a passion of hers.
This raises an interesting question, however; would Rachel Dolezal, white woman, who studied African American culture and history so deeply, have made it so far into the black community that she were allowed to run a chapter of the NAACP if she had just admitted she's white? With the exception of her skin colour, RD did have the bonafides for the work - charges of perjury aside.
I think this is a conversation the entire United States should be having. What constitutes race?
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Very often the racists who are not racists, but rather “race realists”, keep talking about culture that comes with race, as if somehow rap and dashikis automatically come with black skin, salsa and sombreros come with brown skin, and country and spurs come with white skin. As if you can’t pick up and participate in whatever culture you please, if that culture is willing to accept you.
They also insist in such low grade ways you can never really pin them down on when they insisted that these groups should be kept separated because they have such different cultures, as if the things they associate with each culture is somehow exclusive to them in the first place. As if all our own modern cultures today weren’t made up of amalgamations and assimilations of various cultures throughout history, many of which are now extinct because they assimilated into newer, stronger cultures.
Except there’s physical evidence that transgender people aren’t delusional or acting. Studies of the brains of trans people have shown those brains to correspond more closely to their gender identity than their biological sex in both structure and activity. Based on this, we can infer that it’s entirely possible for some quirk of genetics to put a male brain in a female body or a female brain in a male body. You need to stop talking with authority on subjects you have no knowledge of.
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